Yesterday was a slightly crazy one with stuff happening all day long. We had the US U-20 team qualifying for the U-20 World Cup, Stuart Holden made his first league appearance since March 19, 2011 and Joe Corona/Edgar Castillo scored for Tijuana in Copa Libertadores action.

As for some links.

The US U-20 team is headed to Turkey this summer for the U-20 World Cup after beating Canada 4-2 yesterday. The U-20 World Cup starts up on June 21, while the draw will be held on March 25. While they did qualify yesterday, there are still potentially two more games left in the CONCACAF U-20 Championship. The US will play Cuba in the semifinals on Friday and will be without the services of Cody Cropper, Jerome Kiesewetter, Luis Gil and Caleb Stanko the rest of the way as they return to their club teams.

One player who could potentially be on that U-20 team come June is Anthony Brooks. And Every Touch Footy decided to do a video of Brooks’ performance against Kaiserslautern from this past weekend.

As I stated above, Stuart Holden made his first league appearance in 711 days yesterday. It sounds like he did alright and was “neat and tidy”.

Edgar Castillo and Joe Corona scored in Copa Libertadores action last night, becoming the first Americans to score in that competition since Nicky Torres in 2011. And here is a photo of them celebrating after Castillo’s goal.

Sebastian Lletget scored a goal yesterday in U-21 action as West Ham lost to Wolverhampton 2-1.

Kenneth Di Vita Jensen also scored a goal, but in a friendly for Hønefoss.

Stoke City’s Robert Huth could be missing some time in the future. Does this mean some playing time at centerback for Geoff Cameron?

Goalkeeper-Howard, I have to keep him until he shows he can’t do the job (Guzan)
RB- Cameron would be playing the position he plays in the EPL (Parkhurst)
CB- Gonzalez is the future at CB (although I think Beisler was better in the Canadian game) and Bocanegra can help him learn
LB-Castillo has been playing well with Tijuana (Lichaj)
DM-Jones, I’d love to see him playing the role Beckerman played in the Canadian game, pure defensive cover (Edu, Williams)
RM-Chandler, this is were I start to get a different than what we’ve been doing. I think Chandler and Johnson are GREAT at getting forward and getting crosses into dangerous areas. They should be moved forward in the formation to take advantage of this. Their defensive skills would also help stop the other team in the midfield and start counters. (Gatt)
LM-Johnson, see above (Shea)
CM-Bradley, play him in front of Jones with Dempsey, he’ll help cover defensively for Dempsey and link well with the defenders and forwards/wingers (Kljestan)
AM-Dempsey, let him create from midfield, he can link up with Chandler, Johnson and Altidore (all players who are used to playing quick passes in top leagues)
F-Altidore, best forward option right now, replace him in the 65′-70′ min if we need a spark (Gomez, Johnson)

What do you guys think? I might repost this during the weekend commentary.